MEMRI TV again, and here's Egyptian TV host Muhammad Musa on – ah yes – The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, where it states (in Article 17, apparently) that "We will drown the world in a soccer craze so that the world's nations do not deal with what is important".

More on the obsessive anti-Zionist world of the American campus, with Albany law professor Nina Farnia. From MEMRI TV: In a June 19, 2025 episode of The Red Nation podcast on YouTube, Albany Law School assistant professor Nina Farnia said that Iran’s war with Israel is “one of the greatest examples of third world national liberation.” She…

Will the Stephen Ireland fiasco mean the end of police cars painted in Pride colours? We can only hope. Janice Turner in this morning's Times. In 2019, Stephen Ireland posted a film of himself at Surrey police HQ in Guildford beside a Jaguar patrol car customised with a swirling rainbow design and the name of…

From Aaron Bandler at JNS: A Jewish Israeli researcher faced “discrimination and insidious, malicious conduct intended to permanently tarnish his reputation and career” at Stanford University, including “tampering with his lab results and manufacturing a bogus complaint against him, merely for being Israeli,” according to a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday. The suit, brought by…

Justin Marozzi's book Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World is just out. Here he is at UnHerd: Perhaps unsurprisingly, many Westerners tend to focus on their own historical relationship with slavery. But if the triangular Atlantic trade came strewn with blood, it was far from unique…

Someone's been watching a South Korean film when they should have been watching the ducks. From the Daily NK: A public ideological struggle session was recently held at the Yomju Duck Farm in Yomju county, North Pyongan province, targeting a young worker who was caught watching a South Korean film. A source in the province…

The most important fact about Semenya is entirely avoided in this article and, without it, contextualisation is not possible. And that fact is that Semenya is a man. https://t.co/ozCkmE0Fy8 — Andy (@lecanardnoir) July 10, 2025 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Article here. Who is Caster Semenya? Semenya is a two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion over 800m. Between…

Dear @ucu, I was a founder member of UCU and I was a member of AUT before that, but I am resigning today. UCU has been, consistently over that time, by far the most toxic, bullying, antisemitic space I have ever been in. For many years now I have been afraid to speak at… https://t.co/9fSOpSKTbk…

Some North Korean teachers have been skipping mandatory indoctrination sessions at the start of the school day. Oh dear.  North Korean authorities have emphasized the importance of ideological indoctrination for youth, the future generation, but on the educational front lines, ideological education for young people is either perfunctory or omitted entirely. “On the afternoon of June 28,…

Not your usual graffiti. Seen on the Mills Island Towpath, by the tidal Channelsea River just before it joins Bow Creek and the Lea. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Chinese? – with a hint of Iain Sinclair and London psychogeography? Lovely calligraphy anyway. Elsewhere, thereabouts: